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In June 2025, inflation across the euro area climbed back to 2.0 percent, aligning with the European Central Bank’s (ECB) medium‑term goal. This figure marks a modest increase from May’s 1.9 percent and reinforces the narrative that the era of runaway inflation may have officially ended. 📈 What the Numbers Reveal 🔍 Drivers Behind the Shift 🏦…
Date: June 28, 2025 Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is in advanced discussions to raise $29 billion from major private credit firms to support the expansion of its artificial intelligence‑focused data centre network across the United States. 🏗️ Deal Breakdown & Strategic Drivers 🤖 Why It Matters for Meta’s AI Push 📈…
Headline: SPD grapples with internal revolt as veterans push back on defense expansion and rapprochement with Moscow. Subheadline: At the party’s upcoming congress, centrist leader Lars Klingbeil confronts resistance from SPD old‑guard calling for détente and peace-first policies, reviving tensions rooted in the Brandt-era legacy. 1. Rising Tensions at SPD Congress On the eve of…
Headline: Tesla parts with a key Musk confidant as deliveries decline and priorities shift. Subheadline: Omead Afshar, a top executive and fixer to Elon Musk, exits Tesla during a tumultuous period marked by falling EV deliveries, rising competition, and a high-stakes pivot to AI and robotics. 1. A Trusted Lieutenant Departs Omead Afshar, who joined Tesla in…
On June 26, 2025, former Barclays CEO Jes Staley lost his high-stakes appeal to overturn a lifetime ban from senior roles in the UK financial industry. The ban, imposed by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in 2023, stems from misleading statements about the nature and timing of his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein morningstar.com+13reuters.com+13fnlondon.com+13….
🔍 Big Picture Apple’s CarPlay Ultra, unveiled nearly three years ago, is now set to take over full dashboard control—extending from basic media and navigation into deeper car functions like climate control, speed, and fuel metrics. While available in ~98% of US vehicles for standard CarPlay, major brands like Mercedes‑Benz, Audi, Volvo, Polestar, and Renault…
📌 Headline Summary According to Ryan Lee, chief analyst at Bitget Research, Bitcoin has bounced back above $106,000 after briefly dipping under $99K earlier this week. Strong institutional inflows (estimated at $46 billion into ETFs) and easing geopolitical tensions following a Middle East ceasefire have rejuvenated bullish sentiment. Lee sees Bitcoin reaching $110K–$115K by Q3, and…
🧭 Headline Overview A newly launched stablecoin, called A7A5, has transferred approximately US $9.3 billion in just four months—despite a modest market cap of just $156 million. Designed to circumvent Western sanctions, the ruble-pegged token is backed by deposits in Promsvyazbank, a Russian state-linked defense-sector bank currently under US, UK, and EU sanctions. 🏦 Background & Structure 💳…
At an Oval Office press conference last month, Donald Trump described present-day South Africa as “the opposite of apartheid”—a phrase so perfectly weird that the man sitting across from him, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, took several seconds to process it, before literally biting his lip and letting the line pass without remark. The opposite…
On May 26, 1967, the Egyptian president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, issued the following statement about a war he planned to start: “The battle will be a general one and our basic objective will be to destroy Israel.” Nasser and other Arab leaders believed that the annihilation of the Jewish state was both certain and imminent….
